Kanan's Warehouse, Friday Morning and Afternoon

[uncertain_dume]

Kanan was starting to appreciate having his Friday mornings free. It meant he was getting into the habit of showing up at the warehouse first thing - today he had brought Stance along again - and could spend some time meditating before people arrived.

This morning he was working on that whole, 'make a connection' thing that he'd been taught as a kid. He'd put it to some measure of practical use last weekend with Stance, and now he wanted to just settle into the familiarity of it a little bit more. Which mostly meant a morning full of having the dog equivalent of, 'hi! hi! hi! hi! hi!' bouncing around his mind while Stance trotted circles around him, but... that was Stance, really.

Not a bad way to spend a morning, bonding with a happy dog.

... The afternoon would be spent tripping on the happy dog while he attempted to run through lightsaber forms, but what was there to be done about that?

[OOC: Open!]

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[thatwaslucky]

It was another early call from Rey, holding her phone between her ear and shoulder as she was working under a console, but she had to call and today meant multitasking.

[uncertain_dume]

"Hey, Rey."

Happy to hear from her? You bet. And possibly actually taking heart in the fact that she was calling in the morning. Morning meant she was still hiding that she called him, which meant she still had something to hide, which meant she still had the ship.

"How goes it?"

[thatwaslucky]

"Okay," she said, cautiously. "I'm trying to get this motivator working, but I said I'd have it done today. How are you?"

[uncertain_dume]

"No motivators, but I do have a dog underfoot," Kanan offered. "Stance and I have been doing some extra bonding since I spent last weekend riding him around like an oversized eopie. It was one of those weird ones, again."

[thatwaslucky]

There was a long pause, and finally, "I'm sorry, what?"

[uncertain_dume]

"Oh, yeah," Kanan sighed. "Last weekend Fandom thought it would be cute if most of the locals were ten centimeters tall. So getting across town involved a little bit of creativity."

A pause.

"And a dog."

[thatwaslucky]

There was a clanking sound, and then Rey rolled out from where she'd been so she could sit up. "You got to ride a dog?"

[uncertain_dume]

"I got to ride my dog," Kanan confirmed. And then paused. "It was a hell of a ride. Stance doesn't do anything by half-measures."

[thatwaslucky]

"I'm extremely jealous right now," Rey admitted.

Honestly, she was very prepared by life for that sort of weekend.

[justice_undone]

Breq stepped into the warehouse in the afternoon when her classes had finished.

"Your dog seem happy," she said, actually smiling.

[uncertain_dume]

"He's a happy guy," Kanan replied, grinning a little as he lowered his training sword. No actual lightsaber today. Not with a dog underfoot. "This is pretty Stance-standard, really. Hey, Breq."

[justice_undone]

"Hey," she said. "Do you have time to teach me today?"

She suspected Kanan would say yes, but she preferred to give him the option.

[uncertain_dume]

"Of course," Kanan replied with a grin. "Have you been practicing the steps I showed you since last week?"

[justice_undone]

"A bit," Breq said, walking over to pick up one of the bamboo swords. "I can show you and see what you think."

[uncertain_dume]

"Works for me," Kanan replied easily. "Let's see how much you've remembered, we can fine-tune as we go."

[justice_undone]

Without replying, Breq grabbed the sword and moved through the sequence. She did it well, like someone who was used to memorizing new movements, and when she had finished she stopped and turned to Kanan.

There was a lot less anger inside her today, and she kept it inside, keeping her attention on the sword practice.

[uncertain_dume]

Kanan nodded, looking pleased that she'd retained what she'd been shown.

"Good," he decided, smiling. "Good. I want to see more of that. So, today I think we'll add a few more steps into the pattern and tighten up what you have so far. How does that sound?"

[unusual_sith]

Lana stepped in and nodded. "Kan- hello!" as she got mobbed by a very excited dog.

She laughed and knelt down to greet him properly. "He's in a mood today."

[uncertain_dume]

"He spent all morning having his ego boosted," Kanan chuckled, keeping an eye on that excited dog mobbing. "I figured it couldn't hurt to work on getting a little better at just... connecting. So we had a good chat. And now he wants to play."

A pause.

"Forever."

Possibly Stance's own words. Or whatever passed for words, with dogs.

[unusual_sith]

"Of course he does," Lana said. She ruffled Stance's fur and stood up to head a bit further in. "How old is he? Do you know when he'll grow out of puppy stage?"

[uncertain_dume]

"He's... three? Probably about three," Kanan replied, looking down at Stance as he pranced on in. "And hasn't actually changed much since I got him. But we know he was a smaller puppy at some point, anyway."

Since he'd been so small and roly-poly that one weekend.

"No idea when he'll be fully grown. Or if. For all I know, this is it."

[unusual_sith]

"And adorable and squishy then, too," Lana said. "I looked into Earth dogs a bit in the library; they're usually full grown by that age. Though I know you said he wasn't actually from Earth, either."

[uncertain_dume]

"Right," Kanan confirmed. "He was from some... weird rainbow world."

They'd shown it off in class.

It had been a hell of a thing.

[unusual_sith]

"That world was...bright." Lana had not liked that class.

[uncertain_dume]

"Yeah," Kanan sighed. "Part of the reason I tried to lose Stance before we left that place was because I wasn't sure there were enough rainbow sprinkles and glittery milkshakes on the island to keep him properly fed. Apparently that wasn't an issue, he eats actual dog food just fine."